When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (TV Mini Series)
Mercury: Ordinary Supermen (2008)
Christopher Kraft: Self
Quotes
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Christopher Kraft : I saw a lot of rockets launched. I'd say that somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of them failed. A lot of them came up off the pad and went the opposite direction. Some of them got halfway off the pad and blew up, some of them got to 10 000 feet and turned the other way and blew up.
John Glenn : We're looking at this thing and we're looking at each other and deciding we want to go back and talk to the engineers a little more before we go further.
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Christopher Kraft : There was grave doubt in about 98 percent of the medical community that a man could perform a task while flying in zero gravity; that he would have trouble seeing, that he would have trouble swallowing, he would have trouble breathing, he would have trouble talking . . . we had to prove to the medical community that man would survive in the first place.
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Christopher Kraft : [about Freedom 7's launch delays] You could see Alan Shepard's heart rate go up, and it reached above 200. Lord knows what my heart rate was.
